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Primero de Mayo - May Day 2006 in Chicago

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CIMC - DR/CG

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29 Apr 2006

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29 Apr 2006 04:36:07 PM

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May 1st, International Workers' Day — Dia Internacional de los Trabajadores — honors the historic struggle in 1886 for the eight hour work day and the anarchist labor organizers at its core who were murdered by the state the following year. That epic battle for workers' rights and dignity was in large part carried out by immigrant workers. Now, 120 years later, hundreds of thousands of immigrants, their families, friends, neighbors and co-workers will return to the city streets on May Day to demand full justice, equality and dignity for undocumented workers threatened with criminalization and deportation by anti-immigrant legislation now being debated in the US House and Senate.

The Chicago mobilization is part of a nationally coordinated day of action: El Gran Paro Americano 2006 - Un dia sin immigrante The Great American Boycott … A Day without Immigrants. The call appeals for a national boycott and strike — no work, no school, no buying, no selling — on May 1. Currently more than one hundred May Day actions are scheduled in sixty cities across the U.S. In Chicago, the Movimiento 10 de Marzo (March 10th Movement), a multinational coalition of community and labor groups, will sponsor a 10:00 AM rally in Union Park, followed by a unified mass march past historic Haymarket Square to Grant Park. [ See the CIMC razor wire above for a list of specific actions, feeder marches and contingents. ] Read: Support Builds for Immigration Protests, Boycott, Kari Lydersen, The New Standard

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